The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 29, 1928, Page 1

— TAE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS: FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNORGANIZED FOR THE 40-HOUR WEEK FOR A LABOR PARTY HE DAILY WORKER. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. FINAL CITY EDITIO? Vol. V. No. 75. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mall, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, $6.00 per year. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 239, 1928 Published daily except Sunday by The National Daily Worker Publishing Association, Inc., 33 First Street, New York, N. Y¥. Price 3 Cents $50,000 LIBEL SUIT NEW BLOW AT DAILY WORKER New Pe Pennsylvania Strike Call Is Issued to 100,000 Unorganized Miners “SAVE-THE-UNION”” COMMITTEE URGES MEN OUT APRIL 16 Workers Were Betrayed By Lewis Machine PITTSBURGH, Mar. 28.—One hun- i dred thousand unorganized miners in Westmoreland, Somerset and Green Counties were yesterday urged to strike Monday, April 16, in a call issued by the executive of the nation- al Save-The-Un.on miners’ committee. The unorganized coal diggers to whom the call is addressed are ad- vised immediately to organize strike committees, elect secretaries and make all preparations for the strike. The strike call was decided upon after a lengthy discussion with forty-five members of the committee participat- ing, The meeting was held at the Pittsburgh headquarters of the com- mittee. The strike call is issued to a strate- gic section of the miners whé supply coke for the open shop steel mills. These coal diggers were betrayed by the 1922 settlement. in which .the arch-traitor Lewis left 100,000 out of the agreement. The strike call reads as follows; Strike April 16th. “The wages and working conditions of the unorganized. miners are un- bearable. There is a sweeping senti- ment among the miners of the un- organized regions of Pennsylvania to organize and wage a struggle for the improvement of their conditions. Throughout the entire unorganized region there has been for a long time a growing Naat hk that their in- es che fe eee ges ‘wage, eugene a living standards can only be remedied by organization. The Save-the-Union Committee, composed of the rank and file of the United Mine Workers of America, has been successfully carry- ing on organization work among the unorganized miners, establishing committees amongst them, etc. “The powerful coal companies, in alliance with the big railroad com- panies and banks, are attacking the miners. on all sides. The demand of the Mellons, Schwabs, Rockefellers, etc. is for for a 100 per cent open- shop system in the entire mining in- dustry. This openshop drive creates the most serious crisis in both, the organized and unorganized mining re- gions, The reactionary Lewis ad- ministration thru their treacherous policies has made. no effort to de- fend the interests of the miners, or- ganized and unorganized. This re- actionary Lewis machine is directly responsible for the open-shop condi- tion of the mining industry and not the miners of the unorganized re- gions. “Starvation and oppression prevail everywhere in the Pennsylvania coal- fields. Wage cut has followed wage eut. Living conditions in the com- pany towns—subjected to robbery by the company-store system—are un- bearable. No tonnage system exists in the unorganized fields.as it. does in the union fields: Coal is not paid for by the ton but by the “box-car,” No mine run prevails. The miners are compelled to load countless tons of coal free for the companies by the infamous screén system. There is no pay for dead work, such as tim- bering, rock and slate, bailing of water, etc. No checkweighmen are permitted. No mine committees are allowed. The operators stifle any at- tempt of the miners to establish a union. The companies resort to wide- (Continued on Page Two) RUSSIAN MUSIC AT FREIHEIT JUBILEE A rehearsal of all ‘hake partici- pating in the mass pageant and bal- let to be presented by “The Frei- heit” as part of its sixth annivers- ary celebration at Madison Square Garden next Saturday night, will be held at Stuyvesant Casino, Secon} Ave. and 9th St. today at 6.30, Measurements for costumes will be taken at this time. ‘ * + . One of the major attractions at the Freiheit Jubilee will be Sergey Rad- omsky, tenor, who will appear in a program of new songs from Soviet Russia. Radomsky has just returned ‘from a visit to the U, S..S. R., and his program will include folk’ balla and revolutionary songs. aka ' Order Bundle of Dailys Now for Save Union Meet The Save-the-Union Conference begins on April ist in Pittsburgh. A special edition of the DAILY. WORKER is being prepared for April 1, which will contain dozens of items of vital interest on the coal situation all over the country. Prepare for the arrival of the miners in the Pittsburgh confer- ence. Order your bundle of DAILY WORKERS now for April ist! RED LABOR MEET HEARS REPORTS Stress N: eed of Work Among Masses (Spectal Cable to 'The Daily W orker) MOSCOW, March 28..— Gay, re- porting at the Fourth World Congress of the Red International of Trade Unions, on the organizational ques- tions of the intext see is Herman, pares i the Unemployed pointed out that the intensification of Council, Gil Green, ‘district iecatgany | the class struggle in the principal of the Young Workers League and capitalist states, and the growth of |Mary Kasernov, were arrested and the trade union movement in colonial |°harged with “disorderly conduct. and semi-colonial countries bring be-| Despite the terrorization on the part of the authorities, it was an- fore the revolutionary trade union movement a series of important tasks nounced by the organizers of the dem- in the sphere of leadership of the onstration that another meeting would working class. be held within the next few days. “CHICAGO POLICE BREAK UP JOBLESS WORKERS’ PARADE To Hold New Meetings Despite Terror CHICAGO, March 28. — Slugging men and women indiscriminately, po- lice this afternoon broke up a parade of several hundred workers headed for {the city hall. Follows Demonstration. The parade followed a demonstra- tion organized by the Chicago Council of Unemployed at which reactionary union officials and muncipal author- ties were denounced for their refusal to take any action on the grave unem- ployment situation in this city. Pla- cards which were wtarried by the workers were destroyed by the police. The marchers were attacked three |successive times by the police, but each time the line was reformed. Arrest 3 Workers. Three young workers, Samuel T. Above is the shattered death car into which the machine gunmen, hired by the Lewis-Cappelini gang, pumped their murderous fire, end- ing the lives of these two progres- sive miners, Alex Campbell and Pete Reilly. Campbell's. head was found hanging on to his body by a ribbon of flesh. At the right is a picture of Pete Reilly, one of the two murdered leaders. Below is Tom Lillis, progressive treasurer of Local 1708, whose death, when he was shot down in Pittston while returning from a meeting, ushered in the Lewis’ reign of machine gun -terror in the anthracite. “The whole work of the revolution- ary trade union moyement must be based on. the drawing of the broad masses of the wérkers into discussions of the fundamental questions of the none. ft pe chief basis for the | ivities being enterprise | in the mie Gay said. “The carrying thru of mass work is impossible with- out creating and educating the neces- sary cadres of rank and file trade union militants. Rank and File Work. “To educate such cadres we must proceed by opening schools with courses on the problems of the trade union movement and_ systematically drawing into participation in the lead-! ing organs, comrades who have dis- tinguished themselves in rank and file work, ganizer. The statement points out that due to the unemployment crisis and with American imperialism invading Nica- ragua and other small countries it is of utmost importance for all who toil to assemble in Madison Square Gar- den on that day to demonstrate for international solidarity among work- jers. “Trade union organizatiogs adher-| The statement in full reads as fol- ing to the Red International must |lows: work to become mass organizations | while those in countries where the Red International adherents work as revolutionary minorities must on the one hand win the workers who are dissatisfied with the reformist lead- ership an@ on the other hand, draw (Continzied on Page Three} Militant Solidarity. “May First this year will be cele- brated by all class-conscious workers under conditions demanding that the spirit of the day—that of internation- al solidarity—be demonstrated more ,militantly and more loyally than ever before. With general depression ex- isting within the country, destroying | the myth.of prosperity, and with more acute exploitation of the workers in every country dominated by capital- ism, the workers of the whole world are finding themselves face to face ~yith a situation which only interna- RAPS PILSUDSK! =", solidarity can cope with. | “What are the battle fronts of the! lass struggle on which the American Demands Release of BR workers are most fiercely attacke . 4 \ his May First? on Trial at Vilna on this ay Firs' The Miners !Union is marked by the capitalists and their servants, the union bureau- Denouncing the wholesale arrest of (Continued on Page Five) White Russian worker and peasant ——_——— members of “Hromada,” the Interna- tional Labor Defense has sent a eablegram of protest to Premier Pil- sudski and another cablegram ex- pressing its solidarity to the fitty-six rane, 2 ana ooe RETAIN RENT LAWS The cablegram to the Parasktewicz, one of the leading defendants, fol- lows: “In the name of the 300,000 mem- jbers of our organization in the United States, we express solidarity with you and your fellow-defendants on ‘trial and condemn the trial as an attempt to annihilate “Hromada” and crush the aspirations of the White Russian minorities in Poland. We pledge our support and-are conduct- ing a campaign to arouse and organ- ize workers in the United States. in a protest movement against this in- + (Continued on Page i'hree) Jewelry Workers Will Hold Meeting Tonight A mass meeting of all jewelry work- ill ers is to be held tonight at 7 o'clock B arber Bill Vetoed in Bryant Hall, 41st St, and Sixth Ave.| ALBANY, N.Y, Y., Mar. 28.—Gov. An announcement issued by the| Smith vetoed the Lipowite-Dickey bill Jewelry Workers Local 1, which is|which would have provided for state calling the meeting, appeals to all|licensing and regulating of barbers. jewelers, setters, engravers, polishers,| Under the bill the state commissioner toolmakers, press-hands and all other | of health would have been empowered crafts to attend. Workers are also|to promulgate rules and regulations asked to bring their shop mates ‘along, for the conduct of barber shops. __ ALBANY, March 28.—Over 700,000 tenants in New York City and Buf- falo ‘are threatened with eviction as if the fight of the landlords and real estate interests against the extension of the emergency rent laws for the) protection of tenants is successful, it| was indicated at a hearing before Governor Smith today. The hearing was attended by both the landlords und tenants’ associations. The ten- ants declared the housing situation in New York City was too serious to per- mit the emergency law to be scrapped. The United Council of Workingelass Housewives were active in fighting for the retention of the rent law, and were represented by Harriet Silver- man at the hearing. TENANTS FIGHT TO WORKERS ARE URGED _ TO DOWN TOOLS MAY 1 A call to all workers of near York to down tools May 1 for a celebration of May Day is urged in a statement issued last night by the New York district executive committee of the Workers (Communist) Party, through William W. Weinstone, district or-¢ Bosses Boast They Can Win Old System The Hillman administration in the Amalgamated Clething Workers of America is going ahead full speed with its plans to inform the member- ship of its intention of helping the employers install the piece work sys- tem in the New York market. Fear- ing ‘to call membership meetings to | discuss their project, the Amalga- | miated officials are instead calling , conferences of the executive boards of the various locals on the accept- ance of the piece work system. Progressives to Fight. | Abraham Beckerman, manager of the New York Joint Board, will at- tempt to force an endorsement of his rankly proclaimed piece-work policy 1 the coming meetings of the exec- utive boards of the children’s cloth- |ing division, washable goods division, vestmakers, and Italian and Lithu- janian locals. | The sentiment freely expressed by the workers in the market shows | that one of the bitterest fights against the “cooperation with the employers” policy of Hillman and Beckerman will be made when they try to force the sweat shop system on the member- ship. Misleaders for Piece-Work. It is believed certain that the ad- ministration will do more than secret- ly allow individual employers. to. in- stall the piece work system in. their shops. There is no doubt but that an attempt will be made “to frankly legalize picce work in the coming neg- ctiations with the employers when the present agreement expires. This is seen by the statements made daily by annonymous representatives of the manufacturers’ association, in the em: ployers’ trade journals, These state- ments falsely declare that the mem- bership is in favor of piece work, and that the union representatives will be willing to coricede this point for the 40 hour week when negoti- ations open. | Fire Endangers 30 More than 80 womer-patients were endangered yesterday when fire broke out in the Bronx Maternity Hospital, Grand: Concourse and 165th St: Fire- men arriving with apparatus bells muffled put out the fire. HILLMAN PUSHES PIECE WORK PLAN |When Lewis’ ‘Thugs Murdered Campbell, Reilly| $200,000 More to Finance * “Pay-trolic” Publicity ALBANY, N. Y., March 28, — York State will cooperate wi federal government in celebrating the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington. A bill signed by Governor Smith creates a temporary commission to fulfill this purpose and makes an ap- propriation of $200,000 to convey its expenses, }and exposed him as being in the} TROOPERS SHOOT AT MINE PICKETS SECOND ATTACK FOLLOWS DECISION OF STATE COURT ORDERING FINE, JAIL TERMS Lessing, Complainant, Objects to News Story, Exposing him as Employe of Spy Agency Hardly had the decision of the New York State Court of Ap- peals confirming the fine and prison sentences against The DAILY WORKER and its editors been revealed, when the paper was served with notice of the filing of a civil suit in the sum of $50,000. Because the paper described him in a news story as a labor Spy; Adolph Lessing, ——. a Paterson union official and now in a retail business, demand: this sum as damages. The ac- count objected to by Lessing ap- peared in the March 31, 1927, issue of The DAILY W ORKER| - DISTRIBUTE ‘DAILY’ TO MINE WORKERS Urge Free > Subscription for Coal Strikers employ of the International} Auxiliary Co., operating also| under the name of the Eastern| Engineering Company, one of | the biggest spy agencies in the| United States, at the same time that Lessing was an “active” member of the Associated Silk Workers’ Union The Save the Union Conference in Pittsburgh will bring together coal miners from all over the country on i |April 1. This conference is a decie a pa mure From Union. |sive moment in the struggle to defend P the United Mine Workers of America When Lessing’s activities in the|fyom the combined corruption of mine union were exposed and after he had posses and union misleaders and te lost all his influence there, the spy ward off from the American working agency, following the usual practice class the most terrific blow which cam in such cases, discharged him. It was fe made by the destruction of the revealed later that Lessing a short miners’ union. time afterward opened a newspaper! ‘The coal miners have been on strike and magazine store in Paterson, — _ fo, nearly a year. ~Thru the~bitter Lessing | was expelled from his cold of winter, in the midst of star- union and is at the present time suing vation and in spite of organized ter- the organization for slander for de- rorism by the company police and the (Continued on Page Five) machine gun terrorism of reactions pe ary officials of the Lewis-Cappellini machine, the strikers have continued their stirring struggle. Month after month of bitter strug- |gle has rolled by. Forsaken by their iesitoents misleaders, brutalized by the coal company bosses, the miners eve had just one ally in their fight— The DAILY WORKER. Club Strikers at Bulger} A Vital Need, 5 But the poverty, into which the life Block Mine (Special to The Daily Worker) |and death struggle with the bosses jhas plunged the miners, prevents PITTSBURGH, March 28. — ral troopers fired upon and clubbed a jthem from subscribing to their press. Si eacat a on sspears Sch Two) | crowd of mine pickets at the Bulger | Block coal mine this morning. Fail- ling to break up the demonstration the troopers finally resorted to tear gas bombs; A number of the miners were arrested. ‘The nature of the injuries and their umcr have not yét been vegealarnas! Over 500 Picket. Over 500 striking miners marched NEARING TELLS OF NEW WAR DANGER A capacity audience at the Irving Plaza Irving Place and 15th St. | towar E ine, at Bulger 7 ~} toward ne? cae hie at seat s Nearing; ‘wollen! aa ,jat four o’cloc ep oa ri & ou sadist} night on aieOpe ee a hs Despite the fact that the on the scene then h idst and clubbed /@5¢ world war was ed to be a oe — Rito break their |Wr. to. end s all over many in an attempt tc ak th coe the. pheuaite jranks. The troope lined up across as a period, Nearing An at on Soviet Russia is boing prepared behind the screen of the Geneva so-called disarmament conference, he stated. Nearing de scribed the conditions of the workers |in western Europe and the U. S. S, RB the road, but the striking miners who had marched from Cherry Valley Racoon midway between McDonald and Bulger broke through, forcing their way to the picket line at the (Continued on Page Two) “MASCOT” FIGHTS FOR ROLLS ROYCE WORKERS The “Mascot,” a shop paper edited by the workers at the Rolls Royce |appeal for the “hy ag ‘auto plant in Long Island City, has made its second appearance with the collected. The workers at the plant had been looking for it, and ac- March issue. cepted their copies eagerly. - Expose Bosses’ Trick, The March number of this fighting shop paper consists of six pages, in- stead of the former four. The prin- cipal article of the second number is an expose of the new club of the bosses. It pointed out that the club was an attempt by the bosses to fore- ‘stall militant activity of the workers. Other articles deal with shop condi- tions and the war danger. Many of the Rolls Royce workers haye sent the “Mascot” letters telling of con- ditions in their departments. Par- ticular mention is made of the Rolls Royce Company’s policy of dismiss- ing workers who have slaved for es long as ten years in the Rolls Royce shop, for showing signs of militancy or interest in conditions. Several such cases have recently occurred. Even Bosses Read It. Even the bosses in the Rolls Royce plant fee the “Mascot” over, as \from his experiences during his re- cent world tour. He contrasted the ‘ | workers’ conditions in Germany, Eng- ‘land and France with the conditions in Soviet Russia. John Sherman of the editorial staff lof The DAILY WORKER made an $237.45 was The lecture was held under the aus- nehow by their alacrity to make ges- pices of Sections 2 and 3 of the Worke tures * wards improvements when ers (Communist) Party. foul’, ditions are shown up in the} militant little shop paper. , . Nearing, Thomas Will The current issue of the “Mascot’ is accompanied by a statement to the} Debate Tomorrow workers in the shop from the Dis-| RTS trict Executive Committee of the) Scott Nearing and Norman Thomas Narhers Commins) rman ee will debate on “Communism vs, S0- statement explains the policies 0’ e oy Party, and nani out that it is the |eialism” at the Community Church, only organization whole heartedly | 94th St. end Park Ave., tomorrow eve- working for the workers. It calls on|/ning at 8.15. Roger Baldwin will be all class conscious workers to cogp- ‘@batternasn’ The debate will. be tuid erate with the Party in its campaigns | the auspices of the New Masses, and to show their militancy. by, join- ing the Party. me Standard Rakes in WINDOW CLEANER KILLED. MADRID, Mai, 28.16 waa, eee Charles Gonia, a window cleaner of|ed today that American and French Jersey City, was killed when he fell'ojl interests have agreed to accept from a ninth floor window of the|$3,500,000 for their properties which United Charities Building, 105 E.|were taken over by the Spanish gov- 22nd St. ernment oil monopoly. *